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NATO, Russia Hold First Joint Missile Defense Exercises
NATO has completed its first joint theater missile defense exercises with Russia, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported this week (see GSN, March 10). The five-day exercise, held last week at the U.S. Joint National Integration Center in Colorado Springs, was a computer-assisted, real-time program focusing on the NATO-Russia theater missile defense. Its purpose was to test an experimental operations concept developed by the NATO-Russia TMD Ad Hoc Working Group. “Together with a joint interoperability study being conducted concurrently under the lead of the NATO Command, Consultation and Communications Agency, the exercise is expected to provide the basis for future interoperability enhancements as well as for a more robust NRC TMD exercise foreseen for 2005,” NATO said in a statement. Missile defense has long been considered one of the few strategic capacities where Russia could provide added value to NATO, according to Jane’s Defense Weekly. Missile defense cooperation between Russia and the alliance began in the mid-1990s but was suspended in 1999 at the start of the NATO-led operation in Kosovo (Luke Hill, Jane’s Defense Weekly, March 17).
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